White Papers for Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA)

Web Applications Under Attack Four Eye-Opening Findings

Fortify

Today’s business and government organizations depend on software applications to conduct their operations. The need to exchange information with customers, partners and suppliers further requires these applications to increasingly open up to the outside world – bypassing firewalls and other traditional network security designed to protect them and the valuable data they contain. These “open”, and largely “web enabled” applications are subject to greater and greater levels and types of attacks as hackers exploit vulnerabilities within the software.

Although there are numerous reports covering viruses, network-based attacks, public vulnerability announcements, and Spam/Phishing schemes, there is little empirical data on the attacks that specifically target web applications. This report aims to shed light on how applications are being attacked. Over the past six months, Fortify Software gathered data via its Fortify Defender product from numerous, Internet-facing sources. Data for this report was collected from live sites that use Fortify Defender for the expressed purpose of highlighting key findings and trends on real-world attack patterns.

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